" We travel, I thought for adventure and fun, to get away from the drudgery of our lives at home. We travel to court hardship and face the dangers and excitements that are themselves a kind of vacation and challenge for us. We meet people for whom our presence is nothing but opportunity, to take them out of the sadness and difficulty of their lives.

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And now Leah and Jorge are at latitude zero, able to go any which way, north, south, east or west.

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Here's what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep - more tender, less jaded - than the one you were when you woke up.

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the Sun woman rises in the morning and lights a fire  below the horizon and there she uses red ochre powder to decorate her face. Often it spills into the air and this is the red of dawn. She goes west to her other campsite and carries her torch, our sun, across the sky.

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I would learn of the malleability of time, which can stretch a minute into a mile's length and compress a month into the space of a single bed.

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Everything come round, you know."

-- Best of lonely planet travel writing, edited by Tony Wheeler